Editor’s Note: With a new photographer coming on board, we’re taking the opportunity to experiment with a new layout. We’d appreciate some feedback, so let us know what you think, either in the comments thread or on Seoul Sub→urban’s Facebook page. Thanks! And now, I’ll let Joshua introduce himself… New photographer’s note: Hi, my name’s Joshua.…
A few steps outside of Exit 1 three guys in suits were standing around a folding table, handing out literature about a new apartment development to passersby. Behind them an old man sat smoking on some steps in a small plaza, in the middle of which was a bronze statue of Shin Ik-hee (신익희). Shin,…
The most important feature in the Cheonho neighborhood is also the one you’d be most likely to walk past without noticing. Just outside of Exit 10 is an earthen mound, about ten feet high, un-mowed and partly covered in a plant with tiny white blossoms. It looks as if it might be a covered landfill…
Living in Seoul, one grows accustomed to reading the city vertically. I grew up in small and mid-sized Midwestern cities where architecture sprawls low and wide, and as such, was trained to see urban environments two-dimensionally, as a series of buildings placed next to each other. But after living in Korea for a while one’s…
